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The mystic warriors of the Plains / Thomas E. Mails ; with a new afterword by the author.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Marlowe & Company, 1995Description: xvii, 620 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 156924538X
  • 9781569245385
Other title:
  • Subtitle on cover: The culture, arts, crafts, and religion of the Plains Indians
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 978/.00497
LOC classification:
  • 002 E 78 M222m 1995
Online resources:
Contents:
Origin, distribution, and nature of the people of the plains -- Manner of daily life -- Social customs -- Personal qualities -- Form of Government -- Religion-supernatural beliefs -- Religion-the practices of medicine -- Religion-visions and personal power -- Religion-purification -- Religion-Thanksgiving -- Religion-death and the life after -- The buffalo and the horse -- An overview of arts and crafts -- Painting -- quillwork and beadwork -- Achievement marks -- Clothing -- Hair styles, jewelry, and headdresses -- Bows, arrows and quivers -- Lances, knives, clubs, hatchets, and guns -- Shields -- The birth and training of the boy -- The mature warrior on the field of action -- The redistribution and decline of the people of the plains.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Recursos Regionales Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso) 002 E 78 M222m 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000067988

Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1972.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [603]-608) and index.

Origin, distribution, and nature of the people of the plains -- Manner of daily life -- Social customs -- Personal qualities -- Form of Government -- Religion-supernatural beliefs -- Religion-the practices of medicine -- Religion-visions and personal power -- Religion-purification -- Religion-Thanksgiving -- Religion-death and the life after -- The buffalo and the horse -- An overview of arts and crafts -- Painting -- quillwork and beadwork -- Achievement marks -- Clothing -- Hair styles, jewelry, and headdresses -- Bows, arrows and quivers -- Lances, knives, clubs, hatchets, and guns -- Shields -- The birth and training of the boy -- The mature warrior on the field of action -- The redistribution and decline of the people of the plains.

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